14-year-old boy developed a bubble ball to top the appstore-detonated the iPhone development framework Corona

Some title parties are also inevitable to attract attention.

Everyone knows that the "bubble ball" game was downloaded 2 million times in the Apple appstore, and even pushed down the hot game "Angry Birds.

Http://tech.163.com/11/0118/10/6QM3ODV8000915BF.html

This game developer Robert nay is only 14 years old. This is also the reason for news hypes, but I am more interested in discovering what I like and are familiar with in the news.Programming LanguageLua.

Robert originally intended to use objective-C to develop the game, but found that the learning curve was steep, so he turned to the corona http://www.anscamobile.com
Interview Robert at ABCNEWS

In the news, we can also see that he used Lua to program the screen.

What is Corona? In short, it is a 2D framework for mobile development through Lua programming language. Corona enables iOS and Android development.

Lua has many solutions to call the cocoatouch framework, but corona has the advantages of including components required for game development, such as the physical engine, spritesheets, and openfeint, you can use the Lua language to conveniently call Corona.
The API provided by the SDK.

Corona is not free, it provides unlimited free trial, but if you want to publish to appstore or android
Market, You need to purchase the license. The annual license price is USD 349.

If you do not want to use corona or use Lua for convenience, you can use Lua as a script to call your game engine. At this time, Lua's extremely low memory usage, high performance, and convenient dynamic language are very useful.

How to Learn Lua programming language, can refer to my blog http://sunxiunan.com /? P = 1597

Here is my summary of some Lua FAQ (FAQ) http://sunxiunan.com /? P = 1515

 

Some may wonder if python can be used for iPhone development, and there seems to be no ready-made solutions for my current search.

If you are interested in Corona, refer to this tutorial for details.

Http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/corona/corona-sdk-creating-an-analog-clock-app/